Hot Drop, Counter Drop, Third Party Drop...

We where puttering around on coms when the batphone rang and we were told that TEXN has an Archon tackled.

People undocked and rolled for it. They had a small gang fighting TEXNs small gang.

The story started simply. TEXN was out on a roam and chasing a small fleet. They caught up with the fleet and had a archon dropped on them when they went to engage a Vindicator. The Archon went into seige and TEXN began to fight with the ships on the field while keeping an eye out for the Archon to come out of triage and ringing the Molden Heath Pirate Batphone.

As an aside, the Pirates of Molden Heath are well known to work together with a moments notice in situations such as these. RANSM responded with what they had available. We kitchen sinked with points, battleships, battle cruisers, and jumped into the system as fast as we could move our ships.

As we rolled towards it TEXN managed to get Tempest down. As I jumped into the next system TEXNs cyno arrived and we dropped a Nyx and an Archon onto their gang. TEXN now lost two canes before the reps landed.

I jumped into system and landed on top of the Vindicator which I pointed. He decided that he was going to eat me. I turned and started to run away as fast as I could. He started beating the hell out of my cane. Fortuantly, carrier reps kept me up. I got my mind together, dropped my drones on him and he lost lock.

The bad part is that my overload got stuck on and everything burnt out as I frantically tried to make it stop. The Archon came out of triage and then went back in. We were trying to get a neuting ship moved to cap it out. The Vindicator finally deagressed and jumped the gate. We jumped a scimitar and some marchariels after them.

There was a blackbird and a falcon as well during this and a Random dominix that got popped. The falcon and blackbird kept warping in jamming and running off. We kept chasing them off field, they'd come back a bit later.

We cleaned up the rest of the ships on the field. The fleet started to break down somewhat. If we had all stayed things might have gone different. I wasn't paying attention to local because my guns where acting all sorts of weird and off lining themselves.

Then local up, cyno up, and a Tornado fleet dropped on us at range. They dropped 11 tornados 3 scimis, a bunch of tackle frigs, and a few other odds and ends. We had jumped out our mothership and carrier. With some GCC from the Domi kill they were able to tackle and start taking us down. We lost five or so battle cruisers and one of the machariels and one of the scimis and a sleipnir.

We got the other battleships off the field. They were able to cyno in at range and tore into us with alpha. We were to disorganized, having hastily thrown ourselves together to take out the carrier. I was just debating warping off grid to reset my position when I got scrammed and alphaed. The logis couldn't keep up and the battle cruisers were melting under the 1400 Tornado volley.

I find leaving isn't something I'll do immediately. I have sit down with the boys and discuss whens and whys of tactical retreat. I was chasing frigs, keeping them distracted from the battleships getting out. We're not sure if the third party knew the 1st group or if they just stumbled upon us and took the opportunity. They had been plucking at RANSM earlier in the day.

This is also why killboards have a place and a purpose, but reading everything off of isk efficiency does not show you the entire story. Before the fight we were at 93%. Losing the Machariel knocked us into the 70s. I guess we're terrible.

The carrier died. He self destructed in 20% armor. He may not be on the killboard but that is another argument all of its own.

One of my fleetmates came back from AFK to see this in local in the system where the fight went down.

[07:04:34] Dade Corban > The old Archon, far from its prime, unable to hunt for food and incapable of mating with the younger females, lays down is weary head on the stargate, and dies.

[07:05:06] Dade Corban > Thus the circle of life continues. Join us on this next Molden documentary "The Elusive Low-Sec Navy Raven"

[Edit: Early morning edits after I slept corrected some errors. I wrote seige for triage for the carrier. I am ashamed at my terrible writing at 5 in the morning. :P]

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome to my non-technical and outdated but probably still useful guide to boosters. There have been changes to how things are built in Eve. This was the old POS code before the introduction of new structures in 2016. This is just a walk through on my wobbling
path of booster production. It took me
half a dozen different documents to figure out what I needed to do to make
these mythical things. It is what I do. It may not be perfect but it works.

This is pirate focused industry. This guide brought to you by Lain asking me to write it after I tried to explain it in chat.

Why make boosters?
Because drugs are good.
Really they are performance enhancers and performance enhancers can give
someone that extra edge in PvP. It was also because my boys used them and when they
ran low they often ran out, I could be their supplier. They would no longer hoard their drugs due to the length of time it takes to get fresh product.. The thought
of being a drug kingpin was also very appealing. …

It is amazing how much effort can go into crafting thirteen hundred characters. When I first looked at my CSM application I thought that it would be easy to write the official words. Of course it was not. The limit was the largest hurdle. I had so much to say and so few words to say it in. But, I eventually worked through it and submitted everything last Sunday evening. I sent off my passport at the same time and now it is just a short, but long wait.

Tomorrow is the final day of application submissions. Then, on the 3rd, we should find out who actually submitted their applications and passports and passed their background checks. The polls open the following Tuesday. I’ve checked my submission a few times. If I try to fill out the form with Sugar again it tells me that she has already submitted one. I sent my e-mail to the correct place. How I wish for a confirmation email to stare at. For now, i just fret. When I started the run I was worried about …

I find that it is still easy to write about Eve. However, I've not been playing Eve. I spent most of the last few weeks finishing up my crochet project. It was a birthday present for my best friend. Since someone expressed interest in it, here it is.

It is displayed on a king size bed. I made it as a birthday present for my best friend. We've had twenty years of friendship. I met her online when I was a teenager. Our birthdays are two weeks apart so I celebrated mine by making her something. I'm not one to celebrate birthdays but now and then I try to pull myself to a social norm and do something special for the people I love.

I spent a long time fighting to be myself. I finally discovered a balance in this last handful of years. It is still a struggle but for some reason, in my late thirties, understanding is moving briskly along. With that understanding comes comfort. I don't have to fight about and for things like I used to. I don't have to make anyone accept me…